Quotes for 1/29/2012

• Apparently, I have a totally different sense of humour. (Andrew Eldritch)
• But for every hour and a half on stage, you have a five hour long bus ride, waiting for five hours at the airport, five hours of interviews... I know, it's part of the job, but that doesn't imply I have to like it. (Andrew Eldritch)
• I don't enjoy British shows as a rule because British audiences are strange. (Andrew Eldritch)
• I don't trawl record shops anymore. I usually hear music in bars or at friends' houses. (Andrew Eldritch)
• I don't want people to come and see our gig because of the magnificent things I'm doing with my hips, but it's their evening, you know. They have to have fun. I'm a little bit naive. (Andrew Eldritch)
• I still like being in North of England and I keep a place there. But there are a lot of things about the Continent that are to be preferred. The social institutions work better, women have a better position in society and the food is another thing. (Andrew Eldritch)
• I'm not sure it pays to do anything remotely public in Britain. It's such a spiteful society. People seem to enjoy making your life hard for the sake of it. (Andrew Eldritch)
• I've been in Hamburg for about ten years and I just feel at home. (Andrew Eldritch)
• I've never got on with the British press because they've always given me such a hard time. Once they build a band up they just want to do people down. They shouldn't concentrate on the colour of someone's shirt they should listen to the music. (Andrew Eldritch)
• In the beginning, everybody that gets to work with me, thinks I'm nice. But three weeks later, they hear a bell ringing. Then they realise I meant everything I said during that first week. It's not my fault people are not taking me serious from the first moment. (Andrew Eldritch)
• Most writers can write, most rock 'n rollers cannot. (Andrew Eldritch)
• Music is there to enrich your life and make you aware of things in a slightly different way. (Andrew Eldritch)
• Nothing has changed in our relationship with East West. We have no relationship with East West. We've been withholding our labour for almost seven years now. (Andrew Eldritch)
• People have taught me not to look for intelligence in rockmusic. (Andrew Eldritch)
• Postmodernism surely requires an even greater grasp of symbolism, as it's increasingly an art of gesture alone. (Andrew Eldritch)
• The business of being a popular entertainer in England is just too hard. (Andrew Eldritch)
• The citizen is becoming a pawn in a game where nobody knows the rules, where everybody consequently doubts that there are rules at all, and where the vocabulary has been diminished to such an extent that nobody is even sure what the game is all about. (Andrew Eldritch)
• We decided to play the NEC because we were asked to, and because we actually rather like the place: we've always enjoyed doing it before. We don't often get sensible offers to play in the UK, so most years we just play on the mainland, with the occasional exotic detour. (Andrew Eldritch)
• Hope lies in dreams, in imagination, and in the courage of those who dare to make dreams into reality. (Jonas Salk)
• I have had dreams and I have had nightmares, but I have conquered my nightmares because of my dreams. (Jonas Salk)
• I pictured myself as a virus or a cancer cell and tried to sense what it would be like. (Jonas Salk)
• Intuition will tell the thinking mind where to look next. (Jonas Salk)
• It is always with excitement that I wake up in the morning wondering what my intuition will toss up to me, like gifts from the sea. I work with it and rely on it. It's my partner. (Jonas Salk)
• Nothing happens quite by chance. It's a question of accretion of information and experience. (Jonas Salk)
• The worst tragedy that could have befallen me was my success. I knew right away that I was through - cast out. (Jonas Salk)
• There is hope in dreams, imagination, and in the courage of those who wish to make those dreams a reality. (Jonas Salk)
• A pitfall of making a comedy with a studio-and it's also an American cultural thing-is that I get tired of being encouraged to go always for laughs. (Alexander Payne)
• But it's just that the whole country is making generally lousy films these days and has been for quite a while. That's the big problem that we all have to think about. (Alexander Payne)
• Hollywood films have become a cesspool of formula and it's up to us to try to change it... I feel like a preacher! But it's really true. I feel personally responsible for the future of American cinema. Me personally. (Alexander Payne)
• I mean, look, I love movies, not just the ones I make... In fact, I don't like the movies I make very much. (Alexander Payne)
• I think a badly crafted, great idea for a new film with a ton of spelling mistakes is just 100 times better than a well-crafted stale script. (Alexander Payne)
• I think that Peter Jennings is the only decent one of the big three. (Alexander Payne)
• That's how I like to do it with actors, have them really go for it and I'll tell them when it's too much. It's always easier to bring it back then to push it further. (Alexander Payne)
• You just never know when you're living in a golden age. (Alexander Payne)
• If hard work were really a virtue, then mules would be saints. (Jo Dee Marie Messina)
• The rain forest has Sting. Now Siberia has Jack Dee. Someone had to draw the short straw. In this case it was the rain forest. (Jo Dee Marie Messina)
• Clean out a corner of your mind and creativity will instantly fill it. (Jo Dee Marie Messina)
• I've tried word processors, but I think I'm too old a dog to use one. (Jo Dee Marie Messina)
• The Indians knew that life was equated with the earth and its resources, that America was a paradise, and they could not comprehend why the intruders from the East were determined to destroy all that was Indian as well as America itself. (Jo Dee Marie Messina)
• You just don't give up. There have been times when everything seemed to conspire against getting a book done or printed, and I would feel like turning my back on the whole thing. But I came back and persisted. (Jo Dee Marie Messina)
• I hate people who think it's clever to take drugs... like custom officers. (Jo Dee Marie Messina)
• One of my friends went on a murder weekend... now he is doing life for it. (Jo Dee Marie Messina)
• As far as Hip Hop Manhattan was after the Bronx. (Jo Dee Marie Messina)
• I can appreciate that on one side, but we have to remember that the system is designed corruptly, and works against us, so you cant convict those who can benefit from the system, because its not neccesarily their fault. (Jo Dee Marie Messina)
• I didn't know at the time that the energy that I was giving off was like a battle Emcee. (Jo Dee Marie Messina)
• I remember when it was just the three Emcees and then Flash put Mr Ness down. (Jo Dee Marie Messina)
• I was always talking about what I could and would do, and you would always make rhymes about the competion even though we werent thinking about competition. (Jo Dee Marie Messina)
• In Manhattan, and its true on some level till this day; its a whole different mentality from the Bronx, Brooklyn and Queens, which I didn't know at the time - because you basically just know your neighborhood. (Jo Dee Marie Messina)
• My perspective is a lil different 'cus im from Manhattan . (Jo Dee Marie Messina)
• My romantically favorite era is 78, 79 listening to Grandmaster Flash and the Furious 4, the live tapes, echo chamber and break beats. (Jo Dee Marie Messina)
• Some of the free lunch programs were still goin' on - based on the last leg of the Black Panther Party. (Jo Dee Marie Messina)
• Thats why my biggest problems were with LL and Run. (Jo Dee Marie Messina)
• We heard later through the grapevine that we were being compared to the Furious 5, and because of that we were getting feedback that they were saying that we werent all that, that we were copying them... blah blah blah. (Jo Dee Marie Messina)
• An illustration I use to get people to understand it is this: I'll ask major corporate audiences: Why don't you just take all your traditional beliefs about organizations, and apply them to the neurons in your brain? (Jo Dee Marie Messina)
• An organization, no matter how well designed, is only as good as the people who live and work in it. (Jo Dee Marie Messina)
• As I like to say, the entire collective memory of the species - that means all known and recorded information - is going to be just a few keystrokes away in a matter of years. (Jo Dee Marie Messina)
• Every mind is a room packed with archaic furniture. (Jo Dee Marie Messina)
• Experience is easy to provide and quickly put to good use by people with all the other qualities. (Jo Dee Marie Messina)
• If you don't understand that you work for your mislabeled 'subordinates,' then you know nothing of leadership. You know only tyranny. (Jo Dee Marie Messina)
• If you go back to the first single-cell form of life, it clearly possessed the capacity to receive, to utilize, to store, to transform, and to transmit information. (Jo Dee Marie Messina)
• If you look to lead, invest at least 40% of your time managing yourself - your ethics, character, principles, purpose, motivation, and conduct. Invest at least 30% managing those with authority over you, and 15% managing your peers. (Jo Dee Marie Messina)
• If you're in such a position of power and your ego is such that this is not possible, then its essential to have a small cadre of very bright, committed people who are questioning, exploring and understanding these emerging concepts. (Jo Dee Marie Messina)
• It won't do away with hierarchy totally, but the principal leader will be the person who most exemplifies the kind of organization and behavior required who is best able to create the conditions such organizations require. (Jo Dee Marie Messina)
• Language was a huge expansion of that capacity to deal with information. (Jo Dee Marie Messina)
• Lead yourself, lead your superiors, lead your peers, and free your people to do the same. All else is trivia. (Jo Dee Marie Messina)
• Make a careful list of all things done to you that you abhorred. Don't do them to others, ever. (Jo Dee Marie Messina)
• Make an empty space in any corner of your mind, and creativity will instantly fill it. (Jo Dee Marie Messina)
• Make another list of things done for you that you loved. Do them for others, always. (Jo Dee Marie Messina)
• Money motivates neither the best people, nor the best in people. It can move the body and influence the mind, but it cannot touch the heart or move the spirit; that is reserved for belief, principle, and morality. (Jo Dee Marie Messina)
• Preserve substance; modify form; know the difference. (Jo Dee Marie Messina)
• Substance is enduring, form is ephemeral. (Jo Dee Marie Messina)
• Success follows those adept at preserving the substance of the past by clothing it in the forms of the future. (Jo Dee Marie Messina)
• The closest thing to a law of nature in business is that form has an affinity for expense, while substance has an affinity for income. (Jo Dee Marie Messina)
• The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get old ones out. (Jo Dee Marie Messina)
• The prudent course is to make an investment in learning, testing and understanding, determine how the new concepts compare to how you now operate and thoughtfully determine how they apply to what you want to achieve in the future. (Jo Dee Marie Messina)
• Think about technological float: it took centuries for the wheel to gain universal acceptance. Now any microchip device can be in use around the world in weeks. (Jo Dee Marie Messina)
• Throughout history, it took centuries for the habits of one culture to materially affect another. Now, that which becomes popular in one country can sweep through others within months. (Jo Dee Marie Messina)
• What will become compellingly important is absolute clarity of shared purpose and set of principles of conduct sort of institutional genetic code that every member of the organization understands in a common way, and with deep conviction. (Jo Dee Marie Messina)
• With the advent of genetic engineering the time required for the evolution of new species may literally collapse. (Jo Dee Marie Messina)
• At that time, I was signed to Columbia Records as an Independent Producer. I spent many weeks forming, auditioning, rehearsing and recording demos for Kenny, who was finally signed to Columbia Records. (Jo Dee Marie Messina)
• I realized how quickly you could eat up a lot of time and money if you weren't prepared. (Jo Dee Marie Messina)
• It is a lot cheaper to spend eight hours in a rehearsal hall than in a recording studio. (Jo Dee Marie Messina)
• My experience with Buffalo Springfield was that they did not rehearse. (Jo Dee Marie Messina)
• We recorded several of Kenny's songs in the living room of my home. (Jo Dee Marie Messina)
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